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ROBERT HEINRICH FERDINAND BEHRENS, OF HAMBURG, GERMANY.

FLOWER-STAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N3. 318,593, dated May 26, 1885.

Application filed November 15,1884.

(N model.) Patented in Belgium February 15, 1584. No. 63,926; in France Apiil 3, 1884, No.

159,866; in Spain May 5, 1884, No. 5,458, and in Germany May 23, 1884, No. 2 ,166.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT HEINRICH FER- DINAND BEHRENs, a subject of the German Emperor, and a resident of Hamburg, in the German Empire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flower-Stands, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in flower-stands wherein flower-pots are placed for decorating purposes; and the object of my improvements is to provide such flower-stands with a movable bottom, the position of which may be altered according to the size of the flower-pots and the height of the flowers. I attain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figures 1, 2, and 3 are back view, plan, and side elevation, all partly in section, of a flower-stand with movable bottom which may be brought in any inclined position. Fig. 4 is a modification thereof, and Fig. 5 a detailed view of the arresting-pin for keeping the movable bottom in any position required.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

When flower-pots of different height have to be placed into the flower-stand in such a manner that the brims of the pots are at the same level, a flower-stand may be provided with a movable bottom which can be inclined at any degree required. The highest pots are then placed at the lowest point of the plate a and the lowest pots at the highest point of the plate. The bottom plate, a, is supported by four levers, 2, arranged by pairs on the same shaft. The inclination of the levers 2 depends on the position of the levers m, fastened to the shafts 11, which bear the supports y of levers z.

The levers as may be connected with a doublearmed lever, to, by the rods to in such a manner that the distance of the points of application of the rods u from the fulcrum of the lever w varies according to the inclination of the plate a. To effect this, one arm or both of lever are provided with radial slits q, into which the connecting-bolts s of the rods to are fixed. The holes 0', into which engage the springstop t, Fig. 5, serve to arrest the lever to in any posit-ion. The rods u and lever to may also be omitted and the levers a: arrested directly by spring-pins t, as shown in Fig. 4.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I desire to claim and secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a flowerstaud, the combination, with the vertically-adjustable plate a, of the adjustable supporting-levers a and y, the latter being carried by shafts v, lever-arms a: on the outside of the flower-stand, attached to the shafts o, and means for locking the levers .00 in different positions, substantially as set forth.

2. In a flower-stand, the combination of the adjustable plate a, the levers z, pivoted to the frame, the shafts '1), provided with levers 1, and arms :1: outside the frame, the rods u, the lever 20, having slots q therein, and the pin it, for locking the adjustable plate and levers in any desiredposition,substantially as described and shown. 7

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of two witnesses, this 10th day of September, 1881. v

ROBERT HEINRICH FERDINAND BEHRENS.

Vitnesses:

ALEXANDER SPEcHT, DIEDRICH PETERsEN. 

